Alan Keyes, the conservative political commentator who twice ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for president, agreed on Sunday to run against a rising Democratic star to try to protect an open Senate seat from Illinois. ''We do face...

State Comptroller Daniel W. Hynes has announced that he is running for the United States Senate, adding his name to those of about a half-dozen other Democrats seeking the position. The seat is being vacated by Senator Peter G. Fitzgerald, a...

September 16, 2003, Tuesday

Senator John McCain made a passionate and often sarcastic attack today on a proposed $21 billion Air Force plan to lease Boeing 767's for use as aerial refueling tankers, while Air Force Secretary James G. Roche resolutely defended the proposal. ...

Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about a decision by Peter Fitzgerald, Republican of Illinois, against seeking re-election to the Senate misstated a position he took on a gun control measure, alienating other Republicans. He voted...

April 17, 2003, Thursday

Peter Fitzgerald, the Republican banking heir who spent $13 million in 1998 to become the youngest member of the United States Senate, announced this afternoon that he would not seek a second term, throwing open a critical contest that could...

Six moderate Republican senators may have sounded the death knell today for President Bush's proposal to drill for oil in Alaska. In a letter to Republican leaders, the senators said they opposed inserting into the pending budget bill to finance...

A top California regulator told Congress today that the Enron Corporation engaged in sham transactions in late 2000 that drove up electricity prices and helped worsen the energy crisis that plagued the West for more than a year. Testifying to a...

Following are excerpts from the testimony of Sherron S. Watkins, an Enron vice president; Jeffrey McMahon, formerly Enron's treasurer and now its president; and Jeffrey K. Skilling, Enron's former chief executive, before a hearing of the Senate...

John McCain and three of his Senate colleagues want to take a multibillion-dollar whack out of corporate America's profit column. Microsoft would lose more than $2 billion in earnings. About $1 billion would vanish from AOL Time Warner's income...